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Organize Your Canvas Dashboard

Organize Your Canvas Dashboard

If your Canvas Dashboard feels cluttered with too many courses, you can customize which courses appear. Favoriting adds courses to your Dashboard, and unfavoriting removes them. Any published course listed under My Courses in the course list or Card View Dashboard can be marked as a favorite. Unfavoriting a course removes it from the dashboard and helps keep your view organized. 

By default, if you have no courses favorited, the list will show up to 20 courses alphabetically. This cannot be reordered manually. Once you favorite at least one course, only your favorite courses will appear in the list.

  • Only active, published courses can be favorited.

  • Unpublished, future or past enrollments cannot be favorited.

  • Concluded courses appear under Past Enrollments. They stay in your favorites until you manually remove them.

Favorite a Course in Canvas

  1. In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the All Courses [2]. 

An educational platform interface showing a student's course list for the term, with navigation icons on the left and a prompt to customize visible courses via the All Courses link.

  1. To favorite a course, click the star next to a course [1]. Filled stars show that the course is a favorite [2]. 

After you have manually favorited at least one course, Canvas will automatically favorite any new published course enrollments for you. 

Note: Only active courses can be favorited. 

customize-course-list2.jpgA list of courses titled All Courses with favorites marked by stars. Courses include Basic Written Communications, Biology 101, and Introduction to Foods. Term shown is 2023-2024. Option to browse more courses is visible.

  1. Unpublished courses cannot be favorited, even if you're allowed to view unpublished courses before the participation dates. Hovering over the star icon for an unpublished course will display a message indicating that the course cannot be added as a favorite. 

Note: Future and past enrollments cannot be favorited.

Online course dashboard showing a list of courses with star icons for favorites. A red arrow points to History 101 with a tooltip saying it can't be added unless active. Other courses include Introduction to Foods and Biology 101. Sidebar icons for Courses, Groups, and Calendar are visible.

Unfavorite a Course in Canvas

  1. Go to Dashboard, where all your courses are displayed. 

Canvas dashboard with six course cards, each showing course titles, colored banners, and a background of a building with a tower. The sidebar on the left includes Account, Dashboard, Courses, Groups, Calendar, Inbox, History, Studio, Commons, and Help icons.

  1. In the top right corner of the course you want to unfavorite, click the three dots, then click the Move tab. 

Canvas dashboard with a dropdown menu open on the Librarian Training course card. The menu displays options to move the card down, move to the bottom, or unfavorite the course. The rest of the dashboard and sidebar navigation are partially visible.

  1. Click Unfavorite next to the star icon. 

Canvas dashboard with the Librarian Training course card, showing an open menu with options to move the card down, move it to the bottom, or unfavorite it. The menu has tabs for Color and Move, and part of another course card is visible below.

  1. An Unfavorite [Course Name] notification will pop up on your screen. To confirm, click Submit.  

Confirmation dialog for unfavoriting the Librarian Training course, explaining it will be removed from the dashboard but still accessible through All Courses. Contains Close and Submit buttons.